Recent global initiatives on debt relief and development assistance call for increasing aid for trade to the poorest countries. The paper applies a multi-country computable general equilibrium model to measure the effectiveness of alternative aid for trade categories. The findings show that aid...

This study examines the major constraints of rural business entry and performance in Yemen. The Yemen rural investment climate survey made it possible to analyze rural investment climate constraints for rural businesses. The survey was used to investigate both farm and nonfarm rural enterprises....

Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...

In 2004, China and Hong Kong established a free trade agreement (FTA) called the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement, intended to phase out all trade barriers to trade and investment between them. This research uses a computational general equilibrium model to evaluate the effects of the FTA...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on GDP growth in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with particular emphasis on Chinese FDI. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the growth accounting model, a dynamic GMM estimation is used. To compare...

Purpose The aim of this study is to understand the knowledge-sharing structure and co-production of trip-related knowledge through online travel forums. Design/methodology/approach The travel forum threads were collected from TripAdvisor’s Sydney travel forum for the period from 2010 to 2014,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the amounts obtained using professionally accepted quantitative benchmarks of audit planning materiality and the size of accounting misstatements corrected by financial statements restatements....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the size effect of market reaction to unexpected earnings based on whispers or unofficial individual earnings forecasts. Design/methodology/approach – Using both univariate and multiple regression analysis, this paper attempts to...

Purpose – To explore and identify the strategic approaches firms may follow in their pursuit of value transparency (VT) in inter‐organisational relations in supply networks. Design/methodology/approach – Through the use of game theory an understanding of the difficulties of co‐operation...